All electric parcel delivery specialist HIVED announces plans to expand network across London and UK

Parcel delivery company HIVED has opened a new depot site in West London. 

Situated at SEGRO Park Hayes, this can handle up to 40,000 parcels per day to help and will initially employ 45 staff. 

Murvah Iqbal, CEO and Co-founder at HIVED, says: “We were founded with a commitment to improve the parcel delivery experience by putting end consumers first with our tech enabled platform. With our innovative parcel sortation system, which can intelligently flex to accommodate rapid increases in parcel volume as expected in the next year for our service, alongside heavier diversification of postcodes, this expanded site allows us to be all the more effective and efficient in delivering quality to Londoners. 

"This latest expansion is also proof that our multi-site logistics model, with purpose built technology designed for the e-commerce age, is scalable nationally. The next step for HIVED will be to replicate the same levels of service we provide to retailers and customers across other parts of the UK.”

The launch is the first of a number of planned site expansions in the UK. HIVED already operates a middle mile delivery network across the UK, delivering parcels from distribution centres ofretail partners to its depots in London, and it plans to scale its network to new cities in the UK over the next 18 months. 

HIVED says it is unique as the only delivery company to offer fully electric end-to-end delivery, and sustainability will continue to be at the heart of its future growth. It is one of the first companies in the UK to acquire electric HGVs for long haul, and it is building nationwide charging infrastructure to support its haulage network. 

Iqbal says: “We chose our new depot site at SEGRO Park Hayes because it is the perfect location for us to meet demand from customers right across London, complementing our established depot site in East London. The site has an abundance of clean electricity, meaning we can make use of fast charging infrastructure to quickly turn around our fleet of HGVs and get them back on the road.” 

Gareth Baker, Director, Western Corridor at SEGRO, says: “SEGRO Park Hayes is a unique development that integrates living and working space, driving both sustainability and economic growth. It’s great to see the development fully let and our vision for a dynamic, thriving community come to life.

“To meet HIVED’s power requirements, we are reallocating surplus power from another unit to ensure efficient operation. This is just one example of how we go above and beyond to meet our customers’ needs.”

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